Martha Routh or Martha Winter (25 June 1743 – 18 July 1817) was a British Quaker minister and writer.
Life
Martha Winter was the last child, born in
Stourbridge
Stourbridge () is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. Situated on the River Stour, Worcestershire, River Stour, the town lies around west of Birmingham,
at the southwester ...
in 1743, to Henry and Jane Winter. She had nine siblings, although only five survived childhood.
[ Memoir of the Life, travels and religious experience of Martha Routh. Written by herself, or compiled from her own narrative]
Martha Routh, 1822
By the age of 24, she was the head of a Quaker boarding school in Nottingham after starting to teach there when she was seventeen. She was made a minister in 1773 and, after her marriage to Richard Routh in 1776, she devoted herself to Quaker ministry. Over the next few years, she went to all parts of Great Britain and Ireland.
In 1794, she went on a tour of America preaching the gospel with
John Wigham from Scotland. She was there for over three years and she traveled about 11,000 miles. She returned again in 1801.
Routh died in
Spitalfields
Spitalfields () is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is in East London and situated in the East End of London, East End. Spitalfields is formed around Commercial Street, London, Commercial Stre ...
in 1817.
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References
1743 births
1817 deaths
People from Stourbridge
Quaker ministers
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